What Can I Do With 143 Pounds of Walnuts?

Q: I do research on low-risk and organic pesticides, and as part of our data collection we harvest 110 walnuts from each of our sample trees. So, now the 7 people in my lab are sharing 48,000 walnuts (about 1000 pounds)! Aside from giving some away for the holidays, roasting them, and putting them in cookies, what can I do to make sure this bounty doesn't go to waste?

Sent by Lauren

Editor: Lauren, wow! That is a lot of walnuts. We would certainly recommend candying and giving away a lot of them for gifts, but you can also freeze them for future baking projects.

Faith is executive editor of The Kitchn and author of three cookbooks, including the James Beard Award-winning The Kitchn Cookbook, coauthored with Sara Kate Gillingham, as well as Bakeless Sweets. She lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband Mike.